Among the preservatives stand out potassium benzoate, sodium benzoate, potassium nitrate, cytotoxic and genotoxic effects to normal cells of human peripheral blood (Mpountoukas et al., 2010,
Zequin, Yuzbagioglu, Unal, Yilmaz, & Aksoy, 2011), boric acid, citric acid, potassium citrate and sodium citrate, cytotoxic and genotoxic to root meristem cells of A.